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C&EN Uncovered: PhD to CEO, how chemistry entrepreneurs are making the jump
Episode 13
In the 20th century, corporate powerhouses like Bell Labs and DuPont Central Research funded R&D from their balance sheets, creating a clear path for…
2 years ago
C&EN Uncovered: Solvent Waste Levels, EPA Regulations, and Disposal
Episode 12
On average, from 2011 to 2021, academic labs generated around 4,300 metric tons of hazardous waste each year. One of the largest lab-used solvents di…
2 years, 1 month ago
C&EN Uncovered: Ongoing tragedies in Flint and East Palestine
Episode 11
Tragedies in the communities of Flint, Michigan, and East Palestine, Ohio, continue to affect residents 10 years and 1 year on, respectively, from th…
2 years, 2 months ago
C&EN Uncovered: Can 'forever chemicals' be destroyed?
Episode 10
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class of chemicals known as PFAS, are often called "forever chemicals" because of how long they persist in the…
2 years, 4 months ago
C&EN Uncovered: The small-molecule drug renaissance
Episode 9
As the science of drug discovery has grown in scale and gotten more complicated, so have the drug molecules themselves. But there's a promising class…
2 years, 7 months ago
C&EN Uncovered: The ocean floor is littered with valuable minerals. Should we go get them?
Resting on the bottom of the ocean are potato-sized nodules of valuable minerals that are more or less up for grabs. Multiple corporations and some n…
2 years, 9 months ago
C&EN Uncovered: The race to report on the Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize announcements are big events at Chemical & Engineering News. But we find out the winners at the same time as everyone else.
Then, …
2 years, 11 months ago
C&EN Uncovered: Looking back on 100 years of chemistry
The first issue of C&EN was published in 1923 with the stated purpose of "the promotion of research, the development of the chemical industry, and th…
3 years ago
Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein on the transition from the bench to the policy office
Early-career scientists are increasingly gravitating toward science policy, but the transition from the research bench to the policy office can be a …
3 years ago
C&EN Uncovered: Making hydrogen is easy; making it green is a challenge
Hydrogen might be the key to a clean energy future, but only if it can be made without fossil fuels. Most hydrogen today is made from methane.
With…
3 years, 1 month ago